Art criticism is seen by Octavio Paz, José Revueltas y Juan García Ponce as a part of “intuitive observation”. In their visual intuitions, and this is the hypothesis this article seeks to discuss, all of them deal with a productive notion they discover in visual arts, although their arguments differ.

By a comparative analysis this essay focuses on critical texts which nearly haven’t been studied until now searching for similarity and differences in the art critique Paz, Revueltas and García Ponce wrote in the 1960s. Comparing their texts about “Ruptura” painters and their precursors the article will point out different modes of studying aesthetic visuality in Mexico.